Article 6MVPR Biden asserts executive privilege to block release of special counsel interviews

Biden asserts executive privilege to block release of special counsel interviews

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Martin Pengelly in Washington
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House Republicans seek recordings of classified documents case interviews, in what Democrats call a purely political' move

Joe Biden asserted executive privilege to stop House Republicans obtaining recordings of his interviews with Robert Hur, the special counsel who investigated Biden's retention of classified information after his time as a senator and as vice-president to Barack Obama.

In a letter reported by the New York Times and other outlets on Thursday, the White House counsel, Edward Siskel, told the Republican chairs of the House judiciary and oversight committees: The absence of a legitimate need for the audio recordings lays bare your likely goal - to chop them up, distort them and use them for partisan political purposes.

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